{"id":230670,"date":"2025-02-03T08:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T08:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/wpl-2025-rcb-up-warriorz-name-replacements-for-sophie-devine-injured-alyssa-healy\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T08:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T08:08:38","slug":"wpl-2025-rcb-up-warriorz-name-replacements-for-sophie-devine-injured-alyssa-healy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/wpl-2025-rcb-up-warriorz-name-replacements-for-sophie-devine-injured-alyssa-healy\/","title":{"rendered":"WPL 2025: RCB, UP Warriorz name replacements for Sophie Devine, injured Alyssa Healy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2025\/02\/t20-world-cup-final-preview-2025-02-03t110621-1738561708.webp?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"WPL 2025: RCB, UP Warriorz name replacements for Sophie Devine, injured Alyssa Healy\" title=\"WPL 2025: RCB, UP Warriorz name replacements for Sophie Devine, injured Alyssa Healy\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : BCCI\/WPL<\/span> Alyssa Healy was ruled out of WPL 2025 due to a stress injury while Sophie Devine has taken a break from the game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\">The reigning Women&#8217;s Premier League (WPL) champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) have had to make multiple tweaks to their overseas players roster with injuries piling up and the veteran all-rounder Sophie Devine taking a break from the game. RCB had already signed up English all-rounder Charlie Dean as a replacement for Sophie Molineux and now called up the Australian duo of Heather Graham and Kim Garth.  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>While pace-bowling all-rounder Graham, who has been part of the Mumbai Indians in the past, will replace Devine, Garth will return to the WPL fold replacing England pacer Kate Cross, who didn&#8217;t place a single match in RCB&#8217;s title-winning campaign in 2024. &#8220;Kiwi all-rounder Sophie Devine is taking a break from cricket for her well-being, and English speedster Kate Cross will miss the season due to a back injury,&#8221; RCB confirmed the development in a statement on X (previously Twitter.)<\/p>\n<p>Experienced Garth will add depth to the pace attack having had a fifer to her name in the inaugural edition of the WPL playing for the Gujarat Giants. With RCB sweating over Ellyse Perry&#8217;s fitness, Garth&#8217;s addition was timely with Renuka Singh Thakur being the only other experienced Indian option and now Heather Graham adding to the stocks further.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the UP Warriorz too had to make a last-minute change to their side as well with skipper Alyssa Healy being ruled out of the competition due to a stress injury in her right foot. Healy has had a dodgy return to competitive cricket since her injury during the T20 World Cup last year and mentioned that she would want to put her feet up for two months following <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/the-ashes\" rel=\"noopener\">the Ashes<\/a> and sort the issue out once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriorz signed West Indies all-rounder Chinelle Henry as Healy&#8217;s replacement at her base price of INR 30 Lakh. Henry had a great T20 World Cup in the UAE and would complement Tahlia McGrath in the all-rounder&#8217;s department.\u00a0    <\/p>\n<p>The Warriorz now will have to appoint a new captain as well. Since <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/deepti-sharma\" rel=\"noopener\">Deepti Sharma<\/a> was Healy&#8217;s deputy, she would be the top contender for the job unless Jon Lewis and Co. opt to go in a different direction. The third edition of the WPL kicks off on February 14 in Vadodara with the Gujarat Giants taking on the defending champs RCB in the opener.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/cricket\/wpl-2025-rcb-up-warriorz-name-replacements-for-sophie-devine-injured-alyssa-healy-kim-garth-kate-cross-2025-02-03-974391\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : BCCI\/WPL Alyssa Healy was ruled out of WPL 2025 due to a stress injury while Sophie Devine has taken a break from the game The reigning Women&#8217;s Premier League (WPL) champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) have had to make multiple tweaks to their overseas players roster with injuries piling up and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2025\/02\/t20-world-cup-final-preview-2025-02-03t110621-1738561708.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[19916,19912,120439,180412,180414,180413,159574,180415,100748,19917,99107,180417,19,106511,180419,180420,1766,180421,180418,17692,27262,100747,176046,180416,43886,129653,1759,127925,180411],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230672,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230670\/revisions\/230672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}